The SATA Bridge with NCQ “Hydra” (IPA-SA117A-BR) is an integrated circuit that increases the amount of storage and improves performance by aggregating two or four SATA drives into one and presents these multiple physical SATA storage devices as a single logical unit to the host. HYDRA based volumes are capable of reaching 4X the capacity of a single drive and with Native Command Queuing support (NCQ), very high performance is achieved in both read and write modes maximizing IOPS and throughput.
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Applications of the SATA Bridge with NCQ
The IntelliProp IPA-SA117A-BR addresses the following customer application needs:
- SSD manufacturers with a need to build larger drives using smaller capacity drives
- Applications requiring high bandwidth and IOPS
- Applications requiring continued SMART monitoring
Features of the SATA Bridge with NCQ
- Hardware only – no firmware intervention required for read or write I/Os
- NCQ command support
- DSM support – TRIM Commands
- SMART command support
- Spread spectrum clocking support
- Supports external DDR3
- Integrated CPU
- Supports 2 or 4 drives; cascadable for higher drive count
- Supports SATA Gen-3 (6.0 GHz) speed
- Achieves scalable performance and capacity with the number of drives
- Stripe size targeting page size of flash
- Power mode support (DIPM/HIPM)
- Direct Drive access for maintenance or vendor commands
- Industrial temp range: –40° to +100° C
Reference Board
Our SATA Bridge with NCQ reference board (IPB-SA118A-BD) is available for system evaluation.
